A Novel Testing Apparatus for Tribological Studies at the Small Scale

A novel flexure-based biaxial compression/shear apparatus has been designed, built, and utilized to conduct tribological studies of interfaces relevant to MEMS. Aspects of our new apparatus are detailed and its capabilities are demonstrated by an investigation of two interfaces for MEMS applications...

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Main Authors: Gearing, B.P., Anand, Lallit
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: 2003
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/3982